'Offering to the Storm' Ending Explained: Do the child sacrifice rituals really end with Markina's death?
This article contains spoilers for 'Offering to the Storm'
In Dolores Redondo's final installment of the Baztan trilogy we see inspector Amaia Salazar (Marta Etura) dig out the truth of her mother's erratic murderous tendencies when a cot-birth death gets reported. Amaia soon learns that this birth is related to her own mother trying to sacrifice her five-month-old newborn not that long ago. Amaia's mother has been missing, presumed dead since she escaped from the police investigation. But it is finally revealed that Amaia's acquaintance judge Juez Markina (Leonardo Sbaraglia) is actually orchestrating everything, pulling the strings on the sacrifices to an evil spirit called the Inguma, that kills people when they are asleep. Amaia, after falling into an illicit affair with Juez, finally learns of his truth and kills him in the end. But is this the end of it all?
Most likely not. Redondo's story adapted for the screen by Luiso Berdejo ends on an open note where even after Markina's death one believes the Inguma worshippers live on. Amaia's investigation sees her search through a mansion maintained by a midwife called Fina Hidalgo (Ana Wagener), and where people claim a giant cult used to operate. This cult's leader promised them all the wealth and prosperity if they kept feeding the Inguma and this meant bloodshed of their own children for the evil lord. That's what Amaia's mother tries to do, and in the end, when she tries to break into Markina's father's grave, she finds all the dead bodies inside. Markina tells her he had to protect her and so he must kill her now, but before he can, she shoots him fatally.
Things calm down to normalcy with Amaia reuniting with her family. However, all the way in the Baztan valley, right after Markina gets shot, the midwife at the mansion Amaia ransacked gets a call that she answers with "Understood." Moments later, she slices her own throat and kills herself. It means there are still people pulling the strings when it comes to the cult. There are people out there who are still watching Amaia's every move. The danger isn't over. But if it was just a regular call about Markina's death and Fina killed herself on realizing it was all over, then it's a whole other story. For now, we shall rest knowing someone else refuses to let the cult's gritty inner details out in the open and made Fina slit her own throat right after Markina's death.
'Offering to the Storm' is now streaming only on Netflix.